Lou Diamond Phillips, now over 40 years into his acting career, has quietly become one of our more reliable screen performers. His big break came…
Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana retains the 2016 animated film’s narrative and musical architecture so faithfully that the change of medium amounts largely to a substitution…
Since the dawn of cinema, the Western has conjured up an abundance of memorable, grizzled outlaws, often out to rob a bank or a train…
Credit where it’s due: Evil Dead Burn, the sixth movie in the franchise and third with a director other than Sam Raimi, offers a clever…
Sympathetic portrayals of kids who’ve fallen into a life of crime have been commonplace in the arthouse circuit since at least the days of Italian…
Writer-director Georgia Bernstein’s feature debut, Night Nurse, appears to fit within a poetic label once afforded to Claire Denis: this erotic thriller bears a sense…
Aside from the late Jonas Mekas, Boston-based director Ross McElwee is probably the best-known practitioner of the diary film. For nearly 50 years, McElwee has…
One of the hardest things to pull off in comedy is having characters who are knowingly foolish without also dragging the film around them into…